WordPress weekly digest 7th January to 13th January 2008
It has been a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes this week were:
- Update of the jQuery form pluginto the latest version (#5048).
- Addition of mass select functionality to the user editing page (#5592).
- Pass extra information to the filters in
get_lastpostdate()andget_lastpostmodified()(#5292). - Introduction of a new interface for widget management (#5583).
- A switch to jQuery color for fades instead of FAT (#5369).
- Introduction of a newimage uploader (#5609).
- Addition of the ability to re-activate all the plugins deactivated by the deactivate all button (#4176).
- Changes to ensure that the current user information is setup before the init hook fires (#4181).
- Introduction of “Just-In-Time” loading of the tinymce translations (#5605).
- New interface for category addition and setting in the Write->Post page (#5618).
- Documentation for
locale.phpandpluggable.php(#5621, #5509). - Fixes for some PHP E_NOTICE messages when WP_DEBUG is enabled (#5607).
- Changes to ensure that post GUIDs are retained when importing from RSS (#5589).
- Introduction of new xmlrpc functions to get a list of valid post and page statuses (#5569).
- Addition of the abilioty to limit the depth of the tree displayed by wp_list_categories() (#2461).
- Reversion of the change to sent the “Sender” in
wp_mail()(#5273). - Optimisation of the SQL query used to determine what urls are awaiting pinging (#5649).
For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.




Just wanted to say that I absolutely love these posts, and they’re fantastic for building interest and knowledge among potential contributors — thank you!
jdub
January 14, 2008 at 4:23 am
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